On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 14:01 +0000, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 25/10/13 17:31, William Quiviger wrote: > > Yes, the rationale was precisely to have a phased approach and start > > distributing @mozilla.org to staff and Reps only, see how that it > > went and then include everyone once we were confident about the > > process. > > > > So the aim was always to eventually distribute @mozilla.org to *all* > > Mozillians. > > Assuming we use the definition of Mozillian as someone who: > > * believes in the mission > * does something to actively advance it > * interacts with the Mozilla community > > then I think that would be a large mistake. > > Having an email address @projectname.org implies, in the open source > world, that you have a trusted position inside that organization. > @debian.org is for Debian developers. @apache.org is for Apache > committers. And so on.
It usually means that you are a <random Open-Source project name> contributor. For instance I have a mail address for Fedora Project and FSFE since my very first contribution. > Giving an @mozilla.org email address to all Mozillians (by the above > definition) would make it a pretty easy thing to get - which would both > devalue it, and also come with some reputational risk to Mozilla. That's a valid concern, and that's why is better to take small steps giving @mozilla.org aliases to paid stuff and reps for now. ~nikos _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
